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• Cloaked Archive Wiki

  16 mai 2011, par Multimedia Mike — General

  Google’s Chrome browser has made me phenomenally lazy. I don’t even attempt to type proper, complete URLs into the address bar anymore. I just type something vaguely related to the address and let the search engine take over. I saw something weird when I used this method to visit Archive Team’s site :

  
  
  

  There’s greater detail when you elect to view more results from the site :

  
  
  

  As the administrator of a MediaWiki installation like the one that archiveteam.org runs on, I was a little worried that they might have a spam problem. However, clicking through to any of those out-of-place pages does not indicate anything related to pharmaceuticals. Viewing source also reveals nothing amiss.

  I quickly deduced that this is a textbook example of website cloaking. This is when a website reports different content to a search engine than it reports to normal web browsers (humans, presumably). General pseudocode :

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  C :

  1. if (web_request.user_agent_string == CRAWLER_USER_AGENT)
  2.  return cloaked_data ;
  3. else
  4.  return real_data ;

  You can verify this for yourself using the wget command line utility :

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$ wget --quiet --user-agent="<strong>Mozilla/5.0</strong>" \<br />
 http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Geocities -O - | grep \&lt;title\&gt;<br />
&lt;title&gt;GeoCities - Archiveteam&lt;/title&gt;

  $ wget —quiet —user-agent="Googlebot/2.1"
  http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Geocities -O - | grep \<title\>
  <title>Cheap xanax | Online Drug Store, Big Discounts</title>
  

  I guess the little web prank worked because the phaux-pharma stuff got indexed. It makes we wonder if there’s a MediaWiki plugin that does this automatically.

  For extra fun, here’s a site called the CloakingDetector which purports to be able to detect whether a page employs cloaking. This is just one humble observer’s opinion, but I don’t think the site works too well :
  
  

  
  
  

• Anomalie #2280 : Erreurs du formulaire de login

  5 septembre 2011, par Ben .

  il me semble que le cas : quand on saisit un login inexistant, ça n’est pas signalé est volontaire pour ne pas faciliter l’intrusion "sociale", tiens je vais aller sur cuisine-libre et je tente le login "romy" et comme mot de passe j’essaie le mot de passe de son animal préféré. Ecact pour le (...)

• Theora : Ptalarbvorm project update 20100518

  19 mai 2010, par Basil Gohar — Software, Updates, demo, ptalarbvorm, theora, thusnelda, xiph

  Monty of Xiph.org Foundation has given us a demonstration update of the latest development going into the Ptalarbvorm Theora encoder, which is lined-up to be released as libtheora 1.2. The demo includes screenshots comparing the latest development code with the … Read more (...)